The Material management Software or The manufacturing BOM, also referred to as

the manufacturing bill of materials or MBOM, contains all the parts and assemblies
required to build a complete and shippable product. This includes packaging
materials like colored boxes, CDs and printed quickstart guides. It also incorporates
items that are used in the assembly process, like liquid adhesives or tape. Both offthe-shelf (OTS) components and custom, made-to-specification (MTS) parts belong
on a manufacturing bill of materials, as well as non-tangible items like firmware. Any
item that can be found in the final boxed product needs to be included at some level
of the manufacturing BOM.

Some parts require processinglike pad printing, painting or programmingbefore

they are ready to be assembled into a final product. While only the altered part is
assembled into the final product, both the pre-processed base part and the finished
part are represented on the manufacturing BOM. The manufacturing team needs to
know about all the processing steps in order to make critical decisions about which
steps will be performed in-house and which will get outsourced to a separate
vendor. The location of the processing may be changed during the life of the
product to reduce costs, improve quality or increase flexibility.